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A Song of Pause

Journal Article

Arbor Day of this year, April 26th, a 40-foot Black Cherry tree fell on top of our brand-new electric vehicle while we were driving along a city street. The car was wrecked, totaled. My friend and I survived —alive and unscratched.

Published in Summer 2019 By Kirsi Jansa

Reforestation in Portugal

Journal Article

Although the physical reforestation we undertake is, of course, important, it is secondary to healing the sacred relationship between people and Mother Earth. The loss of the sacred stems from the mistaken belief that we are separate—from Nature, from each other, from anything.

Published in Summer 2019 By Laura Williams

Cooperation with Wild Boars in Palestine

Journal Article

The systems which keep all other organisms in check don’t work with us. Why? Why are we overpowering the systems of checks and balances which keep everyone else in check, in harmony with the biosphere. We will eventually be kept in check, of course, but why at such a cost to the entire Earth community?

Published in Summer 2019 By Saad Dagher

Dancing with Animals

Journal Article

The ceremonial dances at Ringbalin were about the river ecosystem and how the people would have found sustenance from it. Ngarrindjeri elder Uncle Moogy spoke about how the creatures are seen in their culture as Naatchi, meaning their friends...

Published in Summer 2019 By Dinali Devasagayam

Among the Nightingales in Berlin

Journal Article

David’s latest recording projects are focused on collaborations with nightingales. As part of the work, Rothenberg and an international band of musicians perform music in concert with nightingales in Berlin’s public parks.

Published in Summer 2019 By David Rothenberg

Sam Lee | Birdsong Hits the Charts

Journal Article

Sam Lee is a British singer of traditional folk songs, a collector, an archivist, a conservationist, and a radical re-interpreter of the British folk tradition.  He is the driving force behind the eclectic, award-winning folk club 'The Nest Collective', and an emerging figure in the Extinction Rebellion movement.

Published in Summer 2019 By Sam Lee and Kari Auerbach

Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon

Journal Article

Bill Twist | What is particularly inspiring about this initiative is that the indigenous groups, although clearly working to protect their territories, also see that this project is for the world and that it is setting a conservation example for the world.

Published in Summer 2019 By Belén Paez and Bill Twist

The Stones Will Cry Out

Journal Article

Animism locates human beings in an expansive family of kinfolk that includes “bear persons” and “rock persons” along with “tree persons” and “human persons.” This sensibility is both ancient and modern. 

Published in Summer 2019 By Mark Wallace

Bringing Reefs Back to Life

Journal Article

Two years ago, an “obituary” for the Great Barrier Reef flew across the Internet like grapeshot fired from a cannon. But the pronouncement was premature. Coral reefs are indeed dying, but they are not yet dead.

Published in Summer 2019 By Sam Teicher

Freeing the Dragon

Journal Article

A world without fossil fuels is only possible if we change the system completely. That means building an alternative which works at least as well in all these diverse fields, but which is regenerative instead of destructive. We need to completely change the system if we want to liberate the dragon.

Published in Summer 2019 By Barbara Kovats